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Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is setting out the Education White Paper as the Government abandons its National Strategies, a flagship of Labour's education policy under Tony Blair.

It will see an end to the centralised prescription of teaching methods and oversight of literacy and numeracy hours in primary schools.

The wide-ranging document outlines plans for a new US-style "report card" which will rank every school on a number of measures, including behaviour,....